what they said

"The first two records had a sort of cinema sound, a cinematic Panavision feel, the broad, big sound we wanted for U2. Now that we've done the cinema sound, I'd like to make it a bit rougher."
- Bono, 1982

did you know

The song 'Bullet The Blue Sky' is musically supposed to represent the bombings of El Salvadorian towns by US planes during its civil war.